Lisa Alpine is a wild woman, whose dance and stories really are not only funny and heartfelt, but encouraging: go farther, travel deeper, and know yourself better. —Amy Gigi Alexander
Jasmine Royce has done a fabulous podcast with me for TRANQUILITY MAGAZINE about dance and the magic of movement as a healing art form for all people. Listen here: Lisa’s podcast on Tranquility Magazine
My award-winning & heartfelt story Amazon Mom, has just been published in BATW Travel Stories.
Also recently I was interviewed in this ATLAS OBSCURA PODCAST, about my wacky and mysterious trip to Damanhur in northern Italy, where a mysterious religious community founded by an insurance agent–turned–spiritual leader spent 15 years constructing an underground temple. Damanhur is covered in intricate paintings, mosaics, trippy colors, and images inspired by Roman, Greek and Egyptian mythology. You may read the entire intriguing story “Sleeping on Sekhmet” in Wild Life: Travel Adventures of a Worldly Woman
Hot Off the Press
#3 in the Life Series
In Dance Life: Movin’ & Groovin’ Around the Globe Lisa Alpine combines her three all-encompassing passions: writing, travel, and dance—into a bouquet of 27 stories that span her lifetime and the globe.
From twerking with a nun in an Albanian orphanage to salsa dancing with a hottie under the burning sun in Cuba, to braving an attempt at flamenco on a Parisian tabletop, these toe-tapping tales will inspire you to follow the call of a wild life, leaving home with your passport in hand and your dance shoes stuffed into the suitcase.
Book Passage independent bookstore, Amazon $15.95, Audiobook $7.95, and Kindle $8.99
“Lisa’s engrossing and enchanted tales transport me to an expansive potential within to invite the unknown and to welcome a broader scope of experience for the pure joy of living more freely and more fully. Love this book! WARNING: Read at your own risk: Spinoff symptoms may develop including intense wanderlust and an overwhelming desire to sway, gyrate, and spend the rest of your life traveling and dancing!” —Mary Jo Rice—Associate Director of the International Marine Mammal Project of Earth Island Institute. Her 2021 New Year’s resolution— to dance every day.
Book Passage independent bookstore, Amazon $15.95, Audiobook $7.95, and Kindle $8.99
“In the twenty-seven stories in Dance Life, Lisa Alpine takes us into dizzying places of freedom, joy, and adventure. Fearless and teeming with energy, she allows nothing to stop her from searching for the perfect dance and the most exotic place to dance it.” —Mary Mackey, New York Times bestselling author of A Grand Passion and winner of the 2019 Erich Hoffer Award
“Dance Life is a hard book to read sitting down. It’s too much fun. As a child dancing in nothing but a diamond necklace and a few scarves, Lisa Alpine horrified her grandmother, and many years later, now almost a grandmother herself, dancing barefoot in a bathing suit, she enchanted a smitten young Cuban on a Caribbean beach. Her enthusiasm for travel and her love of dance are contagious. At some point reading these delightful stories, you may want to put the book down and take a few salsa steps yourself.” —Molly Giles, author All the Wrong Places
“Lisa Alpine’s delightful memoir will have you wondering, “Why don’t I dance more?” Her encounters are spontaneous, daring and joyous and above all, liberating. In her remarkable stories, Lisa proves what the Brazilian writer, Paulo Cohelo wrote, “When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you.” —Maxine Rose Schur, author Places in Time
Don’t miss out on more good reads in the Life Series: Wild Life: Travel Adventures of a Worldly Woman (#2) and Exotic Life: Travel Tales of an Adventurous Woman (#1). Lisa Alpine’s three books in the Life Series are the type of spontaneous and quirky tales that vagabonders dream of when they muse on the possibilities of the open road. Her tales portray a woman with a no-frills approach to travel and a heavy investment in experience. You’ll find impassioned stories about far-flung destinations that can only come from an extended time on the road.
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